Being a Tennessee native, I am delighted to be back in the region I call home. I completed my undergraduate degree at East Tennessee State University, after which I continued my education in Florida. I earned my master's degree in public health from the University of South Florida and then completed medical school in Florida as well. My general psychiatry residency training was at the University of South Florida, and I then completed subspecialty training in child and adolescent psychiatry at the University of Texas Southwestern, where I also served as chief fellow. After training, I spent a few years in Washington D.C., working in a community mental health clinic where I focused on at-risk youth and their families. I joined Kaiser Permanente in January 2016 because I truly believe in the delivery of coordinated and organized high-quality health care that serves families best and makes providing and receiving health care seamless and easy.